The final resting place of New England's last "vampire."

Off a hiking trail in Rhode Island stands a picturesque memorial to a long-forgotten war.

This small-town pizzeria won the Hollywood lottery.

The last location where Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson played before their tragic deaths.

A giant pair of thick black glasses mark the tragic demise of a trio of rock and roll legends.

This massive roadside mascot was the first version of the giant to illustrate his butt.

This early 20th-century rural drinking fountain provides water for both horses and humans.

Dedicated to the history of the 1,000 nuclear missiles that once covered the Great Plains.

One of the first intercontinental ballistic missile sites in the United States.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

Hidden behind Lincoln's head is a chamber containing enamel plates documenting American history, sealed in a teakwood box in a titanium vault.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

Thanks to a loophole in property ownership, this alleyway has become a cacophonous street gallery.

One of America's first dinosaur parks gives a window into Depression-era paleontology.

One of America’s oldest and spookiest hotels, thanks to the residency of ghosts, dead presidents, and Alfred Hitchcock.

South Dakota's oldest operating brewery is housed inside a historic firehouse.

Every president in history is immortalized in bronze in downtown Rapid City.

This replica stave church looks like a piece of Norway was simply plopped down in South Dakota.

Before its closure in 2002, this South Dakota mine was the largest and deepest gold mine in Western Hemisphere.

Seth Bullock, the sheriff of Deadwood, built this town immediately after Teddy Roosevelt’s death in 1919.

The crumbling structure is a rare surviving relic of the area's bygone mining industry.

This vintage train once gave new meaning to “swimming upstream.”

This shallow pit was once used to send over 20,000 buffalo plummeting to their death.

An antique Beechcraft airplane serves as a giant windsock for people driving through the blustery open country of eastern Wyoming.